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I was at the library near my house looking at books on illustration and they had the one of the couple water-skiing. It's done by a very good illustrator named Earl Oliver Hurst, do a google image search on him he's got some yummy goodness lurking about!

wait...the father was beating the kid because his coffee was caffinated? and here i thought it was the booze that he was puting in it. maybe mr. Liquor should get over caffinated and "discipline" his boys! that'd be a lol and a half!

I don't think companies have been able to duplicate the bizarre products they made in the fifties. I mean can you image anything more surreal than getting your own potato for the original Mr.Potato head. I didn't forget about the creepy salesmen that stalks people into buying their products.

The commercial market is not like it was the fifties so many inventive products and ways to sell it.

Hey John, I'm not really sure where to tell you this, but I know you're a fan of Jamie Hewlett/Gorillaz, and their new video is supposed to come out on March 1st. There is one catch though; this time they're in CGI. I would definitely love to see your reaction to it when it's released, and whether or not you think they are actually successful at utilizing computer graphics.

You know, a cartoon about a type-A, Kirk Douglas-type, 50s dad cranked up on caffeine is a great concept. Mom decides to put him on Sanka and he goes ape. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY COFFEE?? IT'S NOT THE SAME ANYMORE! I NEED MY COFFEE!" Then he starts smashing the Look magazine house to pieces. "WITHOUT MY COFFEE I MIGHT DO SOMETHING CRAZY -- LIKE RIP THE PLASTIC COVERS RIGHT OFF THE FURNITURE!" Things escalate ... "I MIGHT GIVE MR. KRUSHCHEV A PIECE OF MY MIND!"

This world needs a serious design revolution, back to the good ol' days of design that makes sense. Look what I found at Target. I think General Mills read your one of your post: old school GM package designs brought back

But even these don't look as cool as some of the old designs you posted in previous blog entries.

Hey, I had to use a real spud for my Mr. Potato Head! I'd outgrown the toy when they started coming with a hard plastic "potato," but I instantly knew it was lame and would have ruined the fun for me. The plastic potato came with holes where you had to stick the parts; with a real potato, you - the kid - had total control over where things went. A big part of the creativity went out when Mr. P.H. went plastic.